Parts of Speech Review

(Nouns and Pronouns)

NounsNounsA Noun is a word used to NAME …

• People• Places• Things• Ideas

• students, Ms. Clements, friends, adults.

• school, Buckhorn High,

the park, Heaven.

• pencil, Kellogg's Frosted Flakes.

• justice, hunger, jealousy, religion.

There is a noun to name every tiny difference in meaning, and it helps your ability to communicate, if you can choose the EXACT noun to convey your PRECISE meaning.

NounsNouns Types of Nouns:

• Common are ordinary

objects that we see, smell, feel, touch, hear, taste, or sense in some way. 

• Proper are specific

places, things, or people. They require a Capital Letter.

NounsNouns Types of Nouns:

• Concrete

names a person, place, thing that can be perceived by one or more of the senses.

yogurt, fire, pencil

Abstract used to name

feelings, qualities or states of being.

joy, love, self-control

NounsNouns Types of Nouns:

• CompoundUses two or morewords together toname a person, place,thing, or idea.

One word- checkbookSeparate- high school Hyphenated- mother-in-law

• Collective

Names a group of

people, animals, or

things.

Flock, cluster, jury

Identify the following nouns:

1. promise

2. pillow

3. group

4. flagpole

5. Tiger Woods

6. kitchen

7. guilt

8. Buddhism

9. cotton

10.Washington Monument

11.post office

12. family

13. jack-in-the-box

14.balloon

15.audience

16.Ms. Clements

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SINGULAR means only ONE of something; PLURAL means more than one. Most nouns form their plural by simply adding -s to the singular form BUT, watch out because some little trouble-makers insist on being different.

PRONOUNSPRONOUNS• A Pronoun is a word which can

take the place of one or more nouns.

• Neglecting to match the pronoun to its correct antecedent can lead to confusing results.

• A pronoun’s antecedent is the word that the pronoun takes the place of.

PRONOUNSPRONOUNS

If your children do not like raw carrots, you should boil them for several minutes.

What is this sentence really saying?

Pronoun/Antecedent• Mario borrowed a car from Mr. Jones. He

will return it tomorrow.

• Several of the students eat lunch because they love the lunchroom food.

• Pony Boy and Soda love pizza. They could eat it everyday.

PERSONAL PRONOUNSPERSONAL PRONOUNS

• Personal Pronouns - these pronouns refer to PERSONS and there are three classes

–First Person - is the person speaking

Examples include: I, me, my, we, us, our

PERSONAL PRONOUNSPERSONAL PRONOUNS

–Second Person - is the person to whom you speak

Examples include: you, your

–Third Person - is the person being spoken about

Examples include: he, she, they, them, him, her; or thing: it

PERSONAL PRONOUNS

• I hope that you can help me with my homework.

• He said that they would meet us outside the theater.

Reflexive and Intensive Pronouns

• A reflexive pronoun refers to the subject of a sentence and functions as a complement or as an object of preposition.– Example: Jim Bob wrote a note to himself.

• An intensive pronoun emphasizes its antecedent. – Example: Cattie herself wrote the school

paper.

Reflexive and Intensive

• First Person: Myself, Ourselves

• Second Person: Yourself, Yourselves

• Third Person: Himself, Herself, Itself, Themselves

Reflexive and Intensive Examples

• My little brother can tie his shoes by himself.

• Carlos himself will perform the song on American Idol.

• I will continue to commit myself to my homework.

• Have you ever climbed a mountain yourself?

Types of PRONOUNSTypes of PRONOUNS

• Possessive Pronouns - are those which indicate possession.

Examples include: MY car, YOUR

house, OUR holiday, ITS kennel,

THEIR decision

Demonstrative PronounsDemonstrative Pronouns

• Demonstrative Pronouns - point out things or persons which are different (they DEMONSTRATE differences)

Singular Plural

this these

that those

Demonstrative Pronoun Examples

• This is my favorite Carrie Underwood song.

• The cookies I made today taste better than these.

Interrogative PronounsInterrogative Pronouns• An interrogative pronoun introduces a

question.

• What

• Which

• Who

• Whom

• Whose

Interrogative Pronouns Interrogative Pronouns

• What is the answer to the question?

• Whose jacket is this?

• Which one is mine?

Relative PronounsRelative Pronouns• A relative pronoun introduces a

subordinate clause.

• That, Which, Who, Whom, Whose– SUBORDINATE (or dependent) CLAUSE

does not express a complete thought and cannot stand by itself as a sentence.

– that we had collected – when he proofread the essay.

Relative PronounsRelative Pronouns• The house that you saw is a historic

landmark.

• Cher is the woman who is running for mayor.

Indefinite PronounsIndefinite Pronouns• An indefinite pronoun refers to a person, a

place, a thing, or an idea that may or may not be specifically named.

All each other most one another

Another either much other

Any everybody neither several

Anybodyeveryone nobody some

Anyone everything none somebody

Anythingfew no one someone

Both many nothing something

Each more one such

Indefinite PronounsIndefinite Pronouns• I have packed everything I need for the

trip.

• Has anyone seen my car keys?

• Most of the presents are for my cousin Caleb.

GRAMMAR WORKBOOK GRAMMAR WORKBOOK RACERACE

• In groups of two or three (on your own paper) do pages 5 and 6.

• First group done and all correct will win candy.